Energy
“If one advance could transform America's prospects, it would be ready access, at scale, to a range of affordable, renewable, low-carbon energy technologies. Only one path will lead to such transformative technologies: research.” - Susan Hockfield
Valerie Karplus PhD ’11, research scientist, and Sergey Paltsev, assistant director for economic research, both of MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, were awarded the...
MIT engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor.
The new material changes its shape after absorbing...
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of...
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of...
Fiona Murray of the MIT Sloan School of Management
Photo: David Sella,...
Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vaporized again; in desalination plants...
MIT researchers have produced a new kind of photovoltaic cell based on sheets of flexible graphene coated with a layer of nanowires. The approach could lead to low-cost, transparent and flexible...
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT...
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2012 issue of Energy Futures, the...
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) doctoral student Yue Fan has been selected for the 2013 Aneesur...
Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) Jacopo Buongiorno and NSE Research Scientist Thomas McKrell have been awarded $412,000 by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic...
Fatih Birol, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, is the lead author of an eye-catching new report projecting that the United States will become the world’s leading oil...
The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity has taken a radically new turn, with the proposal of a “solar energy funnel” that takes advantage of materials...
Nanofibers — strands of material only a couple hundred nanometers in diameter — have a huge range of possible applications: scaffolds for bioengineered organs, ultrafine air and water filters, and...
Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, whose research has focused on the design of advanced inorganic materials and related devices, is the...
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering research scientist Michael Short '05, SM '10, PhD '10 is an exemplar of interdisciplinary knowledge, with Institute degrees in both nuclear science and...
BP announced today that it is renewing its commitment to MIT's Energy Initiative (MITEI) through an agreement to provide another $25 million for...
This article first appeared in Energy Futures: Spring 2012, the magazine...
Condensers are a crucial part of today’s power generation systems: About 80 percent of all the world’s powerplants use them to turn steam back to water after it comes out of the...
Photos: M. Scott Brauer and Jin Suntivich (images 1-3)
This is part of an occasional...
This article first appeared in Energy Futures: Spring 2012, the magazine of the...
The Dalai Lama called for increasingly enlightened stewardship of Earth’s environment and resources in public remarks on the MIT campus on Monday.
“We have the responsibility to take care...
“We have the responsibility to take care...
Christoph Reinhart
Photo: Dominick Reuter
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This article first appeared in Energy Futures: Spring 2012, the magazine of the MIT Energy...
There could hardly be a more pressing issue than energy policy at a time of global warming, but it has rarely featured in this year’s presidential campaign. Until last Friday night at MIT, that is,...